Gateway laptops with nvidia optimus and AMD Fusion configurations @ www.engadget.com

Intel finds stolen laptops can be costly

A Laptop the 'value of S is more than meets the eye. Intel indicates that the stolen laptops cost the owners of corporation more than $100.000 in certain cases, in an announced study Wednesday.

Study on book safety, commissioned by Intel and conduit by Ponemon institute, declares that the laptops lost or stolen in the airports, taxis, and the hotels around the world cost their owners of corporation that an average of $49.246 reflecting the value of the data included above the cost, of PC Intel said.

Analyzing 138 examples of the lost and stolen books, the study based the price to pay $49.246 on associated costs with the replacement, detection, legal medicines, infringement of data, lost intellectual property, lost productivity, and legal, consultation and expenditure of standardization, Intel said. The data open a breach only represent 80 percent of the cost.

Who has a book absent is important, Intel indicated. It is not computer of President 'of S which is evaluated, but a director or a manager, according to the study. An senior officer the 'book of S is estimated at $28.449, whereas a director or a manager 'a book of S is worth $60.781 and $61.040, respectively.

Average costs if the book is discovered that the missings have the same day $8.950 years, according to the study. After more than one week, this figure can reach as high as $115.849.

In addition to the obvious need for vigilance, the countermeasures include security services of figuring and data-suppression. The study noted that the figuring of data makes the most significant difference in average costs: a book lost with an ordering of hard drive quantified is estimated at $37.443, compared with $56.165 for a version nonencrypted, the study indicates.

The anti-theft technology of Intel is pill of has poison solution programmed in the PC which can be started by the internal mechanisms of detection or a remote waiter to close with key a lost or stolen book, making it completely useless, according to Intel.

Sony VAIO VPCS11V9E/B - S Seris Laptops

 

The Sony VAIO VPCS11V9E/B is a laptop that’s been designed for life on the road. The 13.3-inch screen accomplished makes portable enough to slide into almost any bag, while the light 2kg weight means you can hold it around all day easily.Sony has carried out some clever design characterize to make certain that the laptop can manage everything the road has to throw at it. The magnesium-alloy chassis is very tough, while the hardened screen coating defend the 13.3-inch display from knocks and bashes.Internally, an Intel Core i5 processor included cutting-edge performance, ease along by 4096MB of the ultimate high-speed memory technology.

The 13.3in screen makes Windows flawlessly usable, if a little low-resolution. 1,366 x 768 is excellently for most jobs, although more technical users might find it a tad limiting when working on big spreadsheets.It has a 4GB of RAM and secondary storage of 500GB.The VAIO S-Series is a amazing and stylish laptops priced worth £1,215.

Sony VAIO VPCS11V9E/B Specifications:Optical Drive-DVD Rewriter,Graphics-NVIDIA GeForce 310M with 512MB DDR Dedicated Memory,Network Card    10/100/1000 Gigabit Fast Ethernet,Card Reader-2-in-1 card reader ( SD, MS ),Bluetooth-Bluetooth v2.1 + EDR,Operating System    Windows 7 Professional Edition 64-bit,Wireless LAN-Wireless (WIFI LINK A,B,G,N ),HDMI-1x HDMI Port,Battery Life-5-6 Hours-6cells,Weight-1-2 Kg

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Video: Matthew Garrett @ linux.conf.au -- Making laptops work with Linux

Here is the link for a video where Matthew Garrett explains, in truly pessimistic tone, why it was so difficult to get APM, then ACPI, then WMI to work on Linux laptops:

http://linuxconfau.blip.tv/file/4719842/

A lot of what people try to do with hybrid graphics linux is to simply read ACPI tables and figure out what the different calls might do, but this is a process that hasn't been helped by any wisely crafted tools so far.

*By the way, TRP4 is a "transient" receptor protein in Drosophila :-)

 

AMD Llano brings "Fusion" to hybrid graphics laptops @ arstechnica.com

Here is an interesting read from arstechnica.com. AMD's Llano CPU/GPU combo starts shipping...

AMD ships Llano, the ultimate HTPC processor

 

It has been five years since the AMD/ATI merger promised us the "Fusion" of a CPU and GPU onto a single die, and on Monday AMD finally made good on that promise with the shipping of the company's first true multicore CPU/GPU combo parts, codenamed "Llano." Sure, the Brazos platform launch was technically the first time that AMD put a CPU and GPU onto the same die, but Llano is supposed to be what the company originally intended with Fusion—a combination of CPU cores and vector hardware that's somehow more "integrated" than a normal on-die GPU. (The exact way in which the latter is true is not clear to me; if anyone knows, feel free to enlighten.)

The picture above is from AMD's blog post announcing that Llano is shipping to OEMs, and it shows the workers in the company's Singapore factory surrounding a box that presumably contains one of the first batches of Llano processors.

AMD is calling Llano's combination of a CPU and GPU on the same die an APU, for "accelerated processing unit." Whatever you call it, it's pretty certain that even tech-savvy customers are never going to see Llano as anything other than another CPU/GPU combo part like Brazos and Sandy Bridge. No matter, though—the Llano parts will have their own place in the processor ecosystem, and it will be different from that of Sandy Bridge.

There is no chance that Llano's CPU core will outperform that of Sandy Bridge, given that the former is a straight-up derivative of AMD's existing Phenom II core. But Llano's GPU is another matter entirely. AMD has used their considerable experience in building best-in-class integrated graphics processors (IGPs) to pack a ton of GPU performance onto each Llano die. Llano will be a great gaming portable, and Llano desktops should offer extremely good price/performance ratios for gamers.

If Intel can get the performance of Sandy Bridge's trailing-edge GPU design up to the point where it can outperform low-end discrete graphics cards, then Llano should do even better. Llano's DirectX11-class GPU will beat Sandy Bridge's GPU by a comfortable margin, and should compete with mid-range discrete solutions. Intel won't have anything comparable until its Ivy Bridge launch early next year.

So from now until Ivy Bridge comes up, AMD will have the budget performance notebook and desktop segment pretty much to itself with Llano. Llano will also make a monster of a home theater PC chip, because you'll be able to build a relatively cheap HTPC with some serious gaming chops.

AMD has said that the first Llano parts will show up in laptops, with desktop parts likely to follow later in the summer. The company isn't giving out any details on which specific products are shipping, though—we'll probably get this info as part of an official launch, soon.

 

Updated list of laptops with MXMX:MXDS:_DSM ACPI combination

People in the team have been providing details on the ACPI tables for more laptop models.

A few weeks ago, a new module was written that enables login/logout switching via this module:

https://github.com/awilliam/asus-switcheroo

If your laptop is in the list below and you want to try the new module, you can execute the following

commands in a terminal:

sudo apt-get install git
# enter your password
git clone git://github.com/awilliam/asus-switcheroo.git
cd asus-switcheroo
make
modprobe -r nouveau
insmod ./asus-switcheroo.ko
modprobe nouveau

Here is an updated list of the laptops with the MXMX:MXDS:_DSM ACPI combination:

03 Acer.5742G.DSDT.dsl {        MXDS => 18      MXMX => 8       _DSM => 19 }
03 Acer.5935g.DSDT.dsl {        MXDS => 18      MXMX => 8       _DSM => 5 }
03 Acer.Aspire.5935.DSDT.dsl {  MXDS => 18      MXMX => 8       _DSM => 5 }
03 Asus.K42Jc.DSDT.dsl {        MXDS => 2       MXMX => 2       _DSM => 4 }
03 Asus.K52Jc.DSDT.dsl {        MXDS => 2       MXMX => 2       _DSM => 4 }
03 Asus.K53SV.DSDT.dsl {        MXDS => 2       MXMX => 2       _DSM => 8 }
03 Asus.N53Jf.DSDT.2.dsl {      MXDS => 2       MXMX => 2       _DSM => 4 }
03 Asus.N53Jf.DSDT.dsl {        MXDS => 2       MXMX => 2       _DSM => 4 }
03 Asus.N53Jg.DSDT.dsl {        MXDS => 2       MXMX => 2       _DSM => 4 }
03 Asus.N53SN.DSDT.dsl {        MXDS => 2       MXMX => 2       _DSM => 6 }
03 Asus.N53SV.DSDT.dsl {        MXDS => 2       MXMX => 2       _DSM => 6 }
03 Asus.N61JV.DSDT.dsl {        MXDS => 2       MXMX => 2       _DSM => 8 }
03 Asus.N71JV.DSDT.dsl {        MXDS => 2       MXMX => 2       _DSM => 4 }
03 Asus.N73JF.DSDT.dsl {        MXDS => 2       MXMX => 2       _DSM => 5 }
03 Asus.N73SV.DSDT.dsl {        MXDS => 2       MXMX => 2       _DSM => 8 }
03 Asus.P52JC.DSDT.dsl {        MXDS => 2       MXMX => 2       _DSM => 4 }
03 Asus.U30JC.DSDT.dsl {        MXDS => 2       MXMX => 2       _DSM => 4 }
03 Asus.U33JC.DSDT.dsl {        MXDS => 1       MXMX => 1       _DSM => 1 }
03 Asus.U35JC.DSDT.2.dsl {      MXDS => 2       MXMX => 2       _DSM => 4 }
03 Asus.U35JC.DSDT.dsl {        MXDS => 2       MXMX => 2       _DSM => 4 }
03 Asus.U36JC.DSDT.dsl {        MXDS => 2       MXMX => 2       _DSM => 4 }
03 Asus.UL30VT.DSDT.dsl {       MXDS => 2       MXMX => 2       _DSM => 5 }
03 Asus.UL50VT.DSDT.dsl {       MXDS => 2       MXMX => 2       _DSM => 5 }
03 Asus.UL80VT.1.0.DSDT.dsl {   MXDS => 2       MXMX => 2       _DSM => 5 }
03 HP.dm3.DSDT.dsl {    MXDS => 18      MXMX => 10      _DSM => 6 }
03 HP.SLIC-MPC.DSDT.dsl {       MXDS => 18      MXMX => 10      _DSM => 6 }
03 Lenovo.T410.2516CTO.DSDT.dsl {       MXDS => 5       MXMX => 2       _DSM => 5 }
03 Lenovo.T410s.DSDT.2.dsl {    MXDS => 5       MXMX => 2       _DSM => 5 }
03 Lenovo.T410s.DSDT.dsl {      MXDS => 5       MXMX => 2       _DSM => 5 }
03 Lenovo.T510.DSDT.dsl {       MXDS => 5       MXMX => 2       _DSM => 5 }
03 Sony.Vaio.VPCZ136GG.DSDT.dsl {       MXDS => 14      MXMX => 10      _DSM => 19 }
03 Sony.Vaio.VPCZ13V9E.DSDT.dsl {       MXDS => 14      MXMX => 10      _DSM => 19 }
03 Sony.VGN-Z12GN_B.DSDT.dsl {  MXDS => 14      MXMX => 10      _DSM => 5 }
03 Sony.VGN-Z51XG.DSDT.dsl {    MXDS => 14      MXMX => 10      _DSM => 5 }
03 Sony.VPCZ12C5E.DSDT.dsl {    MXDS => 14      MXMX => 10      _DSM => 19 }

Dell's New Mobile Workstations: These Are The Laptops You're Looking For

Having had the chance to check out Toshiba's and HP's impending enterprise-class notebooks, more and more I'm convinced spending up is the way to go when it comes to buying a notebook that both looks and feels like quality. While Dell's Precision notebooks are still a little boxy and aren't quite the ladykillers the new HP EliteBooks are, there's still something very austere and functional about them that puts consumer-grade laptops from any manufacturer to shame. If you're one of the people that didn't much care for Dell's new XPS line, these may be for you.

Dell has announced two new mobile workstations, the Precision M4600 and M6600, 15.6" and 17.3" respectively. Both are based on Intel's Sandy Bridge platform, supporting up to 32GB of DDR3-1333 (16GB of DDR3-1600) in four DIMM slots along with ramping all the way up to the 55-watt Core i7-2920XM, and each offers a range of choices from AMD's FirePro Mobility GPUs and NVIDIA's Quadro GPUs. Best of all, Dell is offering bare-minimum 72% gamut displays on each of these notebooks along with an optional upgrade to an IPS RGB-LED display on the M4600. Let's break them down.

The 15.6" Precision M4600's screen options start from a basic 1366x768 screen, move up to a multi-touch enabled 1366x768 screen, then on to a 1080p screen, and then finally Dell's PremierColor IPS RGB-LED backlit 1080p screen. GPU options include the AMD FirePro M5950 Mobility Pro with 1GB of GDDR5 (GPU equivalent to the 480-shader Radeon HD 6670), the NVIDIA Quadro 1000M with 2GB of GDDR3 (GPU equivalent to the 96-core GeForce GT 540M, depending on the clocks), and the NVIDIA Quadro 200M with 2GB of GDDR3 (GPU equivalent to the 192-core GeForce GTX 460M, but without GDDR5 and only a 128-bit memory interface). Additionally, the M4600 can be configured with a 128GB SSD mini-card to supplement the hard drive; two 128GB SSDs can be configured to run in RAID 0 or RAID 1. It offers virtually every type of connectivity under the sun: gigabit ethernet, 802.11n, Bluetooth 3.0, WWAN, 2x USB 2.0, 2x USB 3.0, FireWire, eSATA, HDMI, DisplayPort, VGA, ExpressCard/54, and a SmartCard reader. The M4600 starts at $1,678 and will be available on May 10th.

Moving up to the Papa Bear, the 17.3" Precision M6600 brings to bear all of the same processor options and connectivity as the M4600, but graphics, display, and storage options are improved. This time, the display starts at a basic 1600x900 panel, but can be upgraded to a 1080p display with or without multi-touch capability. It won't be launching with an IPS display option, but Dell expects availability soon after. Graphics get a boost as well, allowing the following: the AMD FirePro M8900 Mobility Pro with 2GB of GDDR5 (GPU equivalent to the 960-shader Radeon HD 6970M), the NVIDIA Quadro 3000M with 2GB of GDDR5 (240 cores, likely using a GF106/GF116 die, which means roughly GTX 470M with more bandwidth but fewer cores), the NVIDIA Quadro 4000M with 2GB of GDDR5 (336 cores, again with a GF106/GF116 core, but now surpassing GTX 470M), and topping out at the NVIDIA Quadro 5010M with a whopping 4GB of GDDR5 (a full 384 cores, a full-fledged GF104/GF114, matching up with the GTX 485M). Besides the graphics and processor choices, the M6600 adds a second 2.5" drive bay to go alongside the first bay and the offered 128GB mini-card SSD, and these three can be configured together into RAID 0, RAID 1, or even RAID 5. The M6600 starts at $2,158 and will be available on May 10th.

Besides these two notebooks, Dell is offering the Precision R5500 rackmount workstation. This monster is capable of supporting up to five full-length, full-height PCIe x16 cards, dual graphics cards, up to 192GB of memory, up to five SATA drives and six SAS drives, and runs one or two Xeon 5600 series processors. These chips are still based on Westmere technology as opposed to Sandy Bridge, but combined can allow for a total of twelve physical cores and twenty-four logical cores. The R5500 starts at $2,551 and will be available in the states and Europe on May 3rd, showing up in the Asia-Pacific region a week later on the 10th.

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Alienware Launches Three New Gaming Laptops - M11z, M14x, M18x

Alienware has launched three new, all-powerful laptops, including the soon to be released M18x, which lays claim to the title of “most powerful 18-inch gaming laptop in the universe;” the M14x, which delivers unprecedented performance and portability; and an enhanced M11x, already a favorite among gaming enthusiasts, and the most-powerful sub-14-inch notebook in the universe. The two new faces in the Alienware laptop family, the upcoming M18x and the M14x, along with the new M11x, deliver unprecedented power to the gamer on the go. All three platforms offer the latest in gaming technology, and feature second-generation Intel Core i processors to deliver the most immersive high-performance gaming experience imaginable.

• The M18x will offer dual-graphics technology and the industry’s only Intel Core i7 Extreme CPU option factory overclocked to 4GHz;
• The M18x and the M14x offer optional wireless HD audio and video for latency-free streaming to larger screens;
• All three laptops also offer HDMI 1.4 for connection to 3D-capable HDTVs for incredible, lifelike 3D gaming and SuperSpeed USB 3.0 ports for up to 10x the speed of USB 2.0 connections for a new level in data transfer.

“If you’re a gamer, you’re going to love our new family of laptops, which deliver on the features gamers care most about – uncompromised graphics performance, latency-free wireless HD streaming to HDTVs, and lifelike 3D gaming,” said Arthur Lewis, general manager of Alienware. “We are committed to delivering the best gaming systems for enthusiasts everywhere and we take great pride in helping them ‘pwn’, no matter where they are in the world.”

Laptops with AMD’s Llano chip soon

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AMD make new innovation again and again to beat their rival Intel. They’re really serious about their new 32nm processor to stay in battle with Intel Sandy Bridge. They are also confident that they can follow or take a lead to Intel. But, they’re not only focusing their new processor for desktop but also for laptops in mainstream-level.

This new chips, codenamed Llano, are targeted to top and mainstream laptops and desktops, which will be priced at $499. AMD’s last fresh chip was in May last year, when AMD launched new dual-, triple- and quad-core processors.

Of course, we are as the consumer very excited and happy about Llano coming to market. Llano is the future of all processor. Why? Because it combine / integrated the CPU and GPU on one chip, which can help laptops deliver faster application and graphic performance even though in less power.

Llano chips will be the first processor from AMD that use 32nm manufacturing process. This improvement will help reducing power consumption. And it’s exactly Llano chips will compete against Intel’s Sandy Bridge microprocessors, which all of us know it also combined a CPU and GPU on a single chip.

HP's Spring Collection: TouchSmart 610 and New dv6/dv7 Laptops

Just in time for the Sandy Bridge recall, HP held a press conference updating their desktop and notebook lines. In some ways it's just business as usual, but there are definitely some interesting tidbits to digest. HP isn't rattling the pillars of the earth, but they're certainly keeping things moving.

All-in-one touchscreen PCs have been materializing on retail and e-tail shelves at an alarming rate over the past year, and in 2011 HP seeks to take things up a notch with their new TouchSmart 610 and TouchSmart Elite 9300 computers. While there weren't any specifics offered during the conference as to the configurations of these units, there's one very interesting feature that HP added.

 

The stands for the new models now allow them to actually swivel down to a 60-degree angle. If your immediate reaction was "the only thing my touchscreen PC experience was missing was chronic neck pain, thank you HP!" then you aren't alone, but keep two things in mind: the stand works perfectly fine as an actual stand (this is just an option), and for certain uses like store kiosks, this could be a big improvement. Consider the swivel a value-add that opens up the TouchSmart to other markets, allows for different usage scenarios, and reaching forward and manipulating a flat surface in front of you as opposed to at an angle could potentially be more comfortable.

As we said, nitty gritty details weren't readily available during the press call, but the consumer-oriented TouchSmart 610 is now available for purchase on HP's website. The AMD-based model 610z starts at $800 (with the current $200 instant rebate) and comes with an Athlon II 250 (dual-core 3.0GHz), 4GB RAM, 750GB HDD, and a Radeon HD 4270. Upgrades can take the CPU up to the Phenom II X4 910e (quad-core 2.6GHz), you can bump the GPU up to an HD 5570, and you can also add a Blu-ray combo drive. Other features include a 1.3-megapixel webcam, Beats Audio, 802.11n WiFi, wireless keyboard and mouse, and a copy of RUSE (a PC game that's supposed to benefit from the touch interface).

There's also an Intel model, the 610xt, which starts at $1150 (with the current $300 savings). The base model comes with an Arrandale i5-650 CPU (dual-core + Hyper-Threading 3.2GHz), and can be upgraded as far as a quad-core i7-880 (3.06GHz). There's currently a free upgrade to 6GB RAM (from the normal 4GB), as well as a 1TB HDD (instead of 750GB). The stock GPU is a GeForce G210, or you can upgrade to an HD 5570 1GB for $30 (or a 2GB 5570 for $80 - yeah, forget about that card!) Other features and accessories are the same as the AMD model.

The more business-focused Elite 9300 bumps the webcam up to two megapixels and features a 90% efficient power supply, but isn't expected to be available until May.

If there's one thing we do appreciate, it's the gradual simplifying of HP's notebook designs over the past year. There's a much appreciated move away from glossy plastics in the industry, and HP's newer notebooks are becoming more and more minimalistic in their appearances. There aren't any major updates to any of HP's lines other than a greater push towards improving the aesthetics and entertainment experiences except for one: HP has migrated Beats Audio down to its consumer dv6 and dv7 lines. These notebooks both feature quad speaker Beats Audio setups (previously the exclusive domain of the Envy line) and draw more than a few design cues from their more expensive Envy cousins.

Actually, there's one more major change in HP's notebook lineup that's going to be very welcome to a lot of us. This one hasn't been aggressively announced: the triumphant return of dedicated touchpad buttons. The clickable touchpad seemed like a great idea when Apple introduced it, but every iteration that's appeared on a Windows notebook has been difficult at best, dire at worst. Such are the sacrifices that must be made in the name of right-clicking. Welcome back dedicated mouse buttons, we missed you!

The new dedicated-mouse-buttons and Beats-Audio-enabled HP dv6 and dv7 notebooks (along with their refreshed but newly right-clickable G series notebooks) are set to start showing up in retail in mid-to-late March.

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Dell launches Latitude range of business laptops

Dell just announced a bunch of laptops, but these two are particularly interesting to us because we love ultra-portables (who doesn't?). The 12.1" Latitude E4200 weighs only 2.2 Lbs (thanks partly to its SSD drive), making it the lightest Latitude laptop ever. And it does that while preserving a size that allows to have a comfortable keyboard. Secondly, the E4300 is a 13.3", which is probably the best compromise between portability and work comfort. It weighs 3.39lbs. Both laptops feature a 1280x800 resolution display
The Latitude E6400 and E6500 are replacing the Latitude D630 and D830 as the new 14- and 15.4-inch form factors, respectively. Both have a magnesium-alloy backbone like their predecessors, but you'll notice that Dell has moved away from a matted silver finish in favor of brushed aluminum paint. Dell understands that design, especially in this age, is an important business element, which is why red-and-blue-color schemes will also be available in the September 2008 timeframe. Other notable features include dual-pointing devices, as the E6400 and E6500 have both a pointing stick and a touchpad; an RFID SmartCard sensor rather than an actual slot; and a one-screw-remove-plate at the base, so getting to the innards of the laptop is as simple as removing one screw. One of the most memorable things about the D630 was the impressive battery life and multiple battery options. With both laptops, you have the option of a 9- or 12-cell battery.

Dell's new Latitudes feature:

• All-day computing on the E6400 with breakthrough battery life of up to 19 hours
  
• Full-frame magnesium alloy construction and all-metal hinges
  
• Sophisticated keyboard design
  
• Ease of use with Dell ControlPoint, centralizing control of user settings for power management, connectivity configurations and security management in a single application
  
• First business-class laptop with an intelligent backlit keyboard that automatically adjusts to ambient light levels
  
• Exclusive ControlVault solution - intelligent security sub-processors with embedded non-volatile storage that centralizes and helps protect user credentials and security keys in a single hardened security ''vault'' away from the systems main drive
  
• The E6500 is the only laptop with both a contact-less Smart Card reader and a fingerprint readers that complies with Federal Information Processing Standards
  
• Simplified IT with compatible peripherals, adapters, docking and robust manageability features across the entire portfolio.

HP HDX16, HDX18 Entertainment Laptops

HP has announced the HP HDX16 and HDX18 entertainment notebook PCs, featuring high-definition playback support, built-in TV tuners, Blu-ray technology, and a new chassis design.

Both notebooks include built-in Wi-Fi networking, along with home-theater-quality audio/video options that include Altec Lansing speakers, an HP Triple Bass subwoofer and Dolby Home Theater software.

The HDX16 is a midsize notebook with a 16-inch diagonal widescreen with 720- or 1,080-pixel resolution display. The HDX18 is a powerful and visually captivating full-size notebook with an 18.4-inch diagonal Ultra BrightView 1,080-pixel screen and enthusiast-class graphics capabilities.

Additionally, the HP HDX notebook PCs feature HP MediaSmart, which allows consumers to enjoy photos, listen to music and watch movies in high definition.

The HP HDX16 starts at $1,299, while the HP HDX18 starts at $1,549. Both are expected to be available starting later this month.